Antisemitic Groups Shut Down Concert of Jewish Singer
Antisemitic groups took credit for forcing the cancellation of a concert in New Mexico while a second show in Arizona by Jewish musician Matisyahu was also canceled at the 11th hour over speculation that antisemitic workers refused to staff it. The venue in New Mexico employs the wife of Democrat Sen. Martin Heinrich. Matisyahu, whose birth name is […]
NASA Seeks Martians for Simulated Mission to Red Planet
NASA is on the lookout for Martians, but not the little green men depicted in science fiction stories. The space agency said Friday it is accepting applications to participate in its next simulated one-year Mars surface mission to help with its plans for human exploration of the Red Planet. The second of three planned ground-based […]
Biden: ‘No Evidence’ Russia Moving Ahead With Anti-satellite Weapon
President Joe Biden said Friday there was no sign Russia has decided to go ahead and deploy an emerging anti-satellite weapon, the disclosure of which has rattled Washington this week. The White House has confirmed that U.S. intelligence officials have information indicating Russia has obtained such a capability, although such a weapon is not yet […]
Rep. McCaul: Speaker in Catch-22 on Ukraine Aid Vote
House Foreign Affairs Chair Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said he believes a Ukraine aid package will eventually pass in the chamber perhaps in spite of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who may lose out no matter what he does. McCaul made the comments during a breakfast hosted by The Christian Science Monitor in Washington, D.C., on Friday. […]
Gallup: Chances of Biden Winning Reelection Bleak If Numbers Don’t Change
President Joe Biden will have a tough time winning a second term if approval and economic ratings are any indication, according to Gallup. Biden’s job approval rating sits at 41% and just 20% of Americans are satisfied with the country’s direction under the Democrat. According to Gallup, just one U.S. president with a sub-50% approval […]
Biden Says Putin Responsible for on Navalny’s Death
President Joe Biden on Friday blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for Alexei Navalny’s death and warned there could be consequences, saying he was “not surprised” but “outraged” by the opposition leader’s passing. “We don’t know exactly what happened, but there is no doubt that the death of Nalvany was a consequence of something that Putin […]
Pew Poll: Most Dems Say Biden Failing With Border
According to a Pew Research Center poll released Thursday, 73% of Democrat and Democrat-leaning voters say President Joe Biden is doing a “somewhat bad” job or a “very bad job” of “dealing with the large number of migrants seeking to enter the U.S. at the border with Mexico.” Additionally, 80% of all of those surveyed say the […]
Big Tech Signs Accord to Fight Deepfake Election Cons
Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world. Tech executives from Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok gathered at the Munich Security Conference to announce a new voluntary framework for how they will […]
Teacher Busted for Asking Class to Write Ways to Kill Student
A former middle school teacher in Virginia was arrested after instructing his students to write how they could kill a fellow student, Scripps News Norfolk reported. The news outlet discovered, after filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Education concerning teachers in the state who had lost their license, that one […]
US Supreme Court’s Alito Temporarily Halts Boy Scouts $2.46 Bln Abuse Settlement
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily halted the Boy Scouts of America’s $2.46 billion settlement of decades of sex abuse claims, which is being appealed by a group of 144 abuse claimants. Alito’s brief order freezing the settlement gives the court more time to decide a Feb. 9 request by the abuse […]